Sunday, March 21, 2010
2 pm
Not unlike the K.O.S. approach of using literary text to create something new, the Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin concocted his 2002 Dracula adaptation using silent film techniques, postmodern zaniness, and the dancers of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. As the New York Times put it, Maddin's cracked new version of a well-known tale is "voluptuous, whimsical and exceedingly strange." (DVD Projection; 75 minutes.)
